Page 96 - Critical Role: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting
P. 96

tal’dorei campaign guide


              ruins of o’noa adventures                         from the wounds Thordak left here may corrupt areas of
                                                                the land for generations to come, if no one figures out
              thiS too Solid fleSh
                                                                how to cleanse them.
              For low-level characters: New O’Noa is a seedy town filled   While the crater within the Cloudtop has received
              with strange magic. A serious suude addict named Shef   intense attention due to the affluent nature of the vicin-
              Silverleaf is in major debt to Waken, the tiefling leader of   ity, the land devoured by the Scar was mostly outer
              the town. Hired by Waken to aid in collecting his debt,   farmland and forest, occupied by serfs and laborers.
              the party breaks down his door to discover that Shef’s   Some displaced survivors whisper that the members of
              body has been turned to solid silver. Was this foul play, or   the Council are more concerned with rebuilding their
              poetic justice? Waken will take Shef’s solid silver corpse   mansions than healing the Scar. Whether or not these
              as payment, but what if the silver-skinned man were still   concerns are valid, the fact remains that thousands of
              alive and able to magically walk away?            Emonian families still have not found a home, and many
                                                                have turned to thievery, banditry, and burglary to make
              scar of                                           ends meet.
                                                                flamereach outpost
              the cinder King
                                                                Flamereach Outpost is a stout, makeshift fortress of
                                                                unassuming gray stone that stands at the edge of the Scar.
              The realm around Emon will never fully recover from   Its denizens keep watch over the Shivergreen Grove, a
              Thordak’s elemental corruption. His presence not only   small forest at the edge of the Scar that never stopped
              incinerated his enemies, it wounded the land itself. Even   burning. The trees of Flamereach Grove, as it is now
              the Pyrah Ashari, called from across the sea by the   called, are little but blackened skeletons, but they burn
              Council of Tal’Dorei, could not completely mend the   eternally. The fortress was built as a base for the druids
              devastation. The wounds under and east of Emon are not   and elemental specialists who traveled to Emon to heal
              the extent of Thordak’s destruction—his indelible power   the Scar. Led by a half-orc fire ashari named Lorkathar,
              lingers in several isolated corners of Tal’Dorei, such as   a group of firetamers from Pyrah keep constant vigil
              the Ashen Gorge and the ruins of Serpent’s Head—but   over the supernatural devastation, and those who watch
              their proximity to such a large social capital makes them   the undying flames at night swear they can see creatures
              the most devastating. The invisible power that radiates   moving within.














































                                                                            chapter 2: gazetteer of tal’dorei     95
   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101